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Inspection Flashcards

1
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What is included in VPS2?

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Inspections, investigations and records

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What is insitiutional level industrial?

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  • Stell portal frame
  • Insulated profiled steel cladding walls and roof
  • Min 8 meters clear eaves
  • Min 10% roof lights
  • Min 30KN/sq m floor loading
  • Plastic coated steel profiled cladding with brick or clockwork walls to approx 2 meters
  • Electric full height loading doors
  • 3 phase power (415 Volts)
  • 5-10% office content with WC facilities
  • Main services capped off
  • Site cover approx 40%
  • LED lighting
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What are the main defects of an industrial unit?

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  • Roof leaks particularly around roof lights
  • Damaged cladding pannels
  • Cut edge corrosion
  • Blocked valley gutters
  • Settilement/cracking
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What are the main types of office construction?

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  • Either steel frame (useulally less columns and wider span between columns) or concrete frame (more coloumns, lower floor height and shorter span between column)
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What are the main defects of an office?

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  • Damp penetration at roof/GF level
  • Water damage - burst air pipes and a/c units
  • Structural movement
  • Damaged cladding
  • Cavity wall tie failure
  • Effovencene and poor motor joints
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What environmental factors would you consider during an inspection?

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  • Proximity to water
  • Any fuel tanks/ad blue/ other liley causes of contamination
  • presence of asbestos
  • local occupiers and if they are likley to cause contaminiation
  • use of site
  • precence of japenees knotweed
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What steps do you take while loan working?

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What is included in PPE?

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  • Mobile phone
  • High viz
  • Hard hat
  • Steel toe cap shoes
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What do you searches do you make during a desktop search?

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  • OS Maps
  • Flood maps
  • Planning history of site and local area
  • EPC
  • Asbestos register
  • Title plan showing boudaries
  • Lease
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What is a GOAD map?

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A map of retail areas showing individual units with shop names. Include pedestrian zones, road crossings and car parks

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What are the main types of Asbestos?

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Brown (amosite)
Blue (Crocidolite)
White (Chrysolite)

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How do you identify asbestos?

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Request copies of Asbestos management survey

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What are the causes of damp?

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  • water ingress (leaking roof/blocked gutter)
  • condensation
  • burst water pipes
  • rising damp
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14
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4 steps of an inspection

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  1. Consdier personal saftey
  2. Inspection of local area
  3. External inspection
  4. Internal inspection
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What are common defects in period buildings?

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  • Rising damp (below 1.5m)
  • Penetrating damp
  • Dry rot
  • Water ingress
  • Structural movement
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What specification is Grade A office space?

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  • Full access raised floors with floor boxes
  • Approx ceiling height 2.6-2.8 m
  • Ceiling void 350mm and a raised floor void 150 mm
  • Maximised oppertunities for daylight with 300-500 lux average
  • approx floor loading of 2.5 - 3 kn/sq m
  • Air conditioning
  • double glazed windows
  • Passenger lifts
  • planning grid of 1.5 m x 1.5m
  • 1 cycle space per 10 staff and 1 shower per 100 staff
  • 8m2 to 10m2 general workspace nesity
17
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When doing a valuation inspection what factors do you consider?

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  • location
  • aspect
  • deftects
  • occupier details
  • tenure
  • form of construction
  • current condtion
18
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When doing a PAM inspection what factors do you consider?

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If occupied
* Check lease complience
* Check statutory complience
* Condition of the building
* Need for repairs or redecoration
* Occupier details match lease

If unoccupied
* Statutory complience
* State of builiding
* Repair/maintenence
* Security
* Landscaping
* Risk of vandalism/damage

19
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When doing an agency inspection what factors do you consider?

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  • Current condition of the building
  • Repairs/maintence issues
  • Statutory complience
  • Services
  • Presentation
  • Flexibility
  • Marketability

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